If I jammed a large, felt-tip marker between my butt cheeks, bentover near a wall, and danced to the latest Spice Girls album for a couple hours, the resulting incoherent scribble would make a better script than what Duvall came up with,

Like some high school dropout fascinated with his own creativity,(Director Gregg) Araki makes all convenience store transactions in the film amount to $6.66 -- the kind of quirk that makes you scream in agony, "I get it already!" the fourth or fifth time it comes up.